The Gymnast Who Went Megaviral
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2019
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
UCLA’s Katelyn Ohashi wowed the internet this week with a viral video of her college gymnastics floor routine. As Ohashi’s star rises, the U.S. women’s gymnastics program is imploding. Fans of the sport wonder: What is the price of being world-class?
Guest: Slate contributor Rebecca Schumann.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone. Just a warning here at the top. This episode mentions sexual assault. It's going to happen a few times. |
| 0:05.9 | The references go by fast. They're not graphic. But we wanted to give you a heads up. Thanks. |
| 0:16.5 | Okay, so yeah, all right. So I've got the embedded tweet. It's the second one down. |
| 0:22.1 | I called up Rebecca Schumann because I wanted to watch this video with her. |
| 0:26.6 | It's a tweet from UCLA Gymnastics that says a 10 isn't enough. |
| 0:29.9 | You've seen this tape, right? The one with the college gymnast, Caitlin O'Hashi, and her phenomenal floor routine. |
| 0:36.2 | It started making the rounds on Twitter this weekend. |
| 0:39.1 | Yeah, so last weekend was their opener. |
| 0:42.1 | And I went on Twitter and I was like, |
| 0:43.8 | who's going to watch UCLA gymnastics? |
| 0:45.4 | And all these people laughed at me. |
| 0:47.0 | They were like, um, I think just you. |
| 0:50.5 | So it's so I was like, all right. |
| 0:53.6 | Okay. Okay. So I was like, alright, okay. |
| 0:58.1 | Rebecca saw this video way before I did. |
| 1:01.0 | She used to compete as a gymnast. |
| 1:02.8 | Now she writes about competitive gymnastics for Slate. |
| 1:05.4 | So I saw that routine, you know, I've seen it before. |
| 1:09.2 | I didn't see it this weekend. |
| 1:10.1 | I saw it last weekend. |
| 1:11.6 | Everybody who watches NCAA gymnastics did. And we'd all, we've all, it's all old hat to us away. |
| 1:21.2 | All right, so she's gearing up for her first humbling run now. |
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